Friday, August 8, 2008

Green bag giveaway

So we're working on the Green Issue (and we're well aware of the deep, rich chocolatey irony of printing an environmentally-themed issue on dead trees, thanks very much). The marketing department is getting some nice reusable shopping bags to hand out as giveaways, and we thought we'd give them to the readers who offer up the best/most innovative green suggestions. Bonus points if they're New Orleans specific. (My innovative green suggestion: Have the locally owned grocers give back five or ten cents if you bring your own bags. Incentive, y'all.)

Send them to vip@gambitweekly.com, and look for them in the Sept. 2 issue of Gambit:

(*And we know that it shouldn't be "most unique." But doing it all over again would've wasted paper.)

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